As a government agency grows, there is a tendency for the agency to become a bureaucracy. I am not fond of bureaucracy and as clerk of the superior, state, juvenile and magistrate courts of Liberty County, I have done everything within my power to ensure that your clerk’s office never becomes a “system of administration marked by officialism, red tape and proliferation” — which is an onerous task because almost every function of the office is governed by state and federal laws, court decisions, and state- and local-court rules. Individuals hired to work in the clerk’s office understand prior to being employed that they are members of a team.